Mike Higgins, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Designed and executed program management structure for the Plant Operations group, ensuring projects with highest value are pursued and tracked to completion.
• Selected to represent Plant Operations to design and build NRG’s Project Management Community, driving best practices for existing project managers and mentoring those whose career path includes it.
• Drove successful on-time, on-budget delivery of plant technology initiatives including operations management solutions, historian support and enhancements, and emissions reporting systems.
• Lead requirements gathering, capture and document all project deliverables, maintain schedules and budgets for multiple ongoing projects.
• Served as first point-of-contact for plant personnel to ensure proper capture, processing and resolution of information technology requests.
• Facilitated IT Solutions by interfacing with multiple IT teams (Application, Server, Database, Network, Telecommunications) to provide end-to-end technology solutions.

Houston, Texas, US

London, UK, GB

• Drive successful on-time, on-budget delivery of large technology and interactive marketing projects (worth $2mm in revenue for FY2007) for Fortune 100 clients including: Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Methodist.
• Lead requirements gathering, capture and document all project deliverables, maintain schedules and budgets for multiple ongoing projects.
• Report to, and communicate with, Idea stakeholders including executive management throughout the project lifecycle from initiation to delivery.
• Guide and direct long-term strategy for the agency as member of Strategic Leadership Team.
• Mentor and guide more junior Idea personnel to ensure institutional knowledge, skills and practices are carried on by next generation of management.
• Serve as an overall project escalation point for large accounts with multiple, simultaneous projects running (often supervising multiple Project Managers).

• Originate projects and define overall vision, scope and phases of IT projects and support items to streamline workflow and improve controls and efficiency for the Power mid-office.
• Test all enhancements and new applications prior to deployment.
• Report equity transactions and reconcile daily P&L and cash positions across multiple financial instruments in both power and gas commodities markets.
• Produce daily P&L reports for the asset management portfolio detailing overall risk and exposure for both gas and power at the physical plant level.
• Maintain all pricing for power commodities including forward proprietary marks, settlement pricing, and Intra-Day/Next-Day pricing.
• Ensure daily tie-out of NYMEX and ICE cleared trading activity.

San Francisco, California, US

• Support all aspects of the Entergy-Koch Risk Management System including SQL Server Back-End (comprising Mark-To-Market, Price Curves and associated logic), Business Objects Reporting (entailing Daily P&L, Daily Change.
• Work closely with the power and gas mid-office groups to understand risk management and analysis in order to better design and implement technological solutions to business problems.
• Develop estimates, gather requirements and organize teams to accomplish defined tasks and manage workflow ensuring on-time and under-budget delivery of projects.
• Acquire experience with Confirmations, Settlements, Financial and Reporting for all aspects of Mid-Office operations, analysis and reporting.